The top management of a well-known manufacturing firm in Kenya engaged a consulting firm to study factors that are leading to high or low productivity in their company. The consulting firm employed a descriptive research design and a structured questionnaire in collecting data from a sample of 400 respondents. The questionnaires were prepared before the analysis commenced. The findings of the study were that working conditions, employee remuneration, and leadership style were the major causes of the observed problem.

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1. Write down the research objectives in this study (2 marks)

2. Explain the steps the researcher would have followed to arrive at the sample size chosen for the study ( 2 marks)

3. Describe the research design adopted in the study and explain its uses (3 marks)

4. Describe ‘data preparation’ as applied in the case above. (3 marks)

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